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Teaching mindfully: encountering student spiritualities.

Publication: Academic Exchange Quarterly
Publication Date: 22-JUN-04 		Format: Online - approximately 692 words
Delivery: Immediate Online Access

Article Excerpt
In a 2003 Los Angeles Times story, journalist K. Connie Kang compares the "Do-It-Yourself Religion" or "mix and match spirituality" of contemporary Americans to choosing combinations from a buffet or wardrobe or editorially "cutting and pasting" in a word processing program. [1] A comment by theologian Edmund Gibbs of Fuller Theological Seminary suggests the impact of such syncretistic religious thinking may be having on our students: "Younger people live with ambivalence. It's not either or but both and." [2] These student attitudes inform the articles on teaching religion in this issue of Academic Exchange Quarterly.

Although on the surface, the authors, their...

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